christopher N&W posted:Simon Winter posted:No! If he knew what he was doing, he wouldn't be asking. Easy for you to say do this or do that when you have NOTHING in it. If the thing ends up junk, no skin off your nose.
Simon
Simon,
You don't know the guy's abilities and neither do I.
NO—I have not said for him to do anything except one constructive thing that I'll repeat.
Take the back truck assembly off and try to run the model on the 072 curves. This seems like a logical first step. This may sort out any further ideas he might have about continuing on.
I bought a Lobaugh berk with the goal of 3-railing it. The Berk has 60-ish inch drivers. The nekkid chassis will just go around a 36"r curve, with all drivers flanged. An 8-driver, 70"driver chassis ain't gonna make it unless there is a LOT of sideways movement available. Which in itself is a butcher's delight.
The other thing is, even if you could get the loco to run on 36"r curves (T-rail track...), the track better be laid with near-micrometer precision.
